Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . these enclosures. We said good-bye to Tachienlu friends and continued ourjourney, following the main tea road as far as Wassukou. The river was a seething torrent all the way, and fallsalmost 3,000 feet in six li (fifteen miles). In several places wewere marching right in the spray, that was dashed far over ourheads, as the water beat its surf in white foam against theboulders. Very little cultivation was to be seen after passingtwo miles below Tachienlu. About some of the houses by theroadside a small patch of vegetables or tobacco was to b
Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes . these enclosures. We said good-bye to Tachienlu friends and continued ourjourney, following the main tea road as far as Wassukou. The river was a seething torrent all the way, and fallsalmost 3,000 feet in six li (fifteen miles). In several places wewere marching right in the spray, that was dashed far over ourheads, as the water beat its surf in white foam against theboulders. Very little cultivation was to be seen after passingtwo miles below Tachienlu. About some of the houses by theroadside a small patch of vegetables or tobacco was to beseen, but such cultivation was so limited as to be scarcelyworth mentioning. 228 up the Tung River. Wassukou stands on the right bank of the Lu River, justabove its junction with the Tung. Here we spent the was quite early when we arrived, so we went down to theriver to watch the natives fishing. The system of anghngadopted was one commonly used by the Chinese in swift-running streams, where the fish is caught when passing overthe SOME OF THE PEAKS OF THE DABA RANGE. The fishing gear consists of a long bamboo rod, with afixed iron ring at the tip, a reel is attached to the fishingrod, sometimes the line is wound between the thumb andforefinger and over the elbow, t^\?o hooks are attached to theline a few feet apart, and a small lead sinker is made fastabout six feet higher up. The line is thrown out into thecurrent, and let run through the iron ring, the current beingswift the line is carried away, then drawn up over the rapid 229 Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes. again. The hooks catch in the side of a fish that is strugglingto get up the rapid, and in this way large fish are sometimescaught, but it requires a lot of practice and patience to be atall successful. I have seen fish 7 to 8 lbs. landed in this way,but I have also on other occasions watched the fishermenwork away for an hour and never get a fish. Near Wassukou we met the Sub-prefect, who wa
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